Randy Saylor, Sr. v. Board Of Education Of Harlan County, Kentucky

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that against the background of parental consent, “caselaw leaves no room for doubt that [the principal] and [assistant principal] acted within the limits set by the Constitution when they allowed [child’s] teacher to paddle him for fighting in the classroom”
• holding that a teacher’s paddling of an eighth grade student so hard that it knocked the breath from the student and left visible bruises and swelling, was not “so severe” or “disproportionate to the need presented” that it violated the Fourteenth Amendment
• “Webb is not directly on point here, because it involved a battery that was in no way ‘disciplinary’—and we stressed the importance of distinguishing the type of battery at issue in Webb from the disciplinary blows inflicted as punishment in Ingraham.”
• “Webb is not directly on point here, because it involved a battery that was in no way ‘disciplinary’ — and we stressed the importance of distinguishing the type of battery at issue in Webb from the disciplinary blows inflicted as punishment in Ingraham”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).